{"id":6216,"date":"2015-06-10T10:05:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T15:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6216"},"modified":"2015-06-09T23:22:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T04:22:06","slug":"five-year-highway-plan-approved-us-20-completion-scheduled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/five-year-highway-plan-approved-us-20-completion-scheduled\/","title":{"rendered":"Five-year highway plan approved; US 20 completion scheduled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa highway construction took a record step Tuesday when the transportation commission <a href=\"http:\/\/siouxcityjournal.com\/news\/local\/commission-sets-funding-to-finish-highway-in-nw-iowa\/article_ac8c1ed2-7e02-50cd-ae24-1b79bece91bf.html\">approved a $3.2 billion five-year plan<\/a>. If federal funding stays on track, this five-year plan includes the <a href=\"http:\/\/siouxcityjournal.com\/news\/local\/commission-sets-funding-to-finish-highway-in-nw-iowa\/article_ac8c1ed2-7e02-50cd-ae24-1b79bece91bf.html\">complete expansion of US 20 to four lanes<\/a> in Iowa (except the Julien Dubuque Bridge).<\/p>\n<p>There don&#8217;t appear to be any major changes from the draft plan, which was amended before release to include projects made possible by the increase in the state&#8217;s gas tax. Dubuque&#8217;s Southwest Arterial and taking US 61\/IA 92 to four lanes down to Grandview would be the new-ish things (that is to say, not continuations of things that have been going on a while).<\/p>\n<p>On the county level, Fremont County will be doing a major <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kmaland.com\/news\/j--resurfacing-planned-this-month\/article_6b14e95e-0966-11e5-a63f-4f7b7bc00c81.html\">construction project on old IA 184<\/a>, now J18, probably the first big work on that since decommissioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa highway construction took a record step Tuesday when the transportation commission approved a $3.2 billion five-year plan. If federal funding stays on track, this five-year plan includes the complete expansion of US 20 to four lanes in Iowa (except &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/five-year-highway-plan-approved-us-20-completion-scheduled\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6217,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6216\/revisions\/6217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}